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Google Announces That Its Annual I/O Developer Conference Will Take Place May 18-20

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Google's annual I/O developer conference will take place May 18-20 at Shoreline Amphitheater, near the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters.
The event has previously been held at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the dates and venue change in a tweet Tuesday, saying the company would be bringing the annual event to the "neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago.

Google is holding their annual I/O Conference May 8th through 10th in Mountain View, California at the Shoreline Amphitheater. According to digitaltrends.com, Google announced this, in it’s, “usual, eclectic fashion, the location and date were only unearthed after a series of clues, laid our breadcrumb-style, led intrepid adventurers to the correct location.” Their first clue was a tweet from the Google Developers Twitter account.

Arby's parent company, Inspire Brands, is acquiring burger chain Sonic for $2.3 billion including debt.
At $43.50 per share the acquisition will amount to $1.57 billion in cash.
Inspire Brands was founded in February after Arby's acquisition of Buffalo Wild Wings.
Business Insider says Sonic will continue to operate independently out of its Oklahoma City headquarters.
The deal is expected to close by the end of this year.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the site will soon start rolling out dating features. The announcement was made during a speech at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference. Zuckerberg claims the feature has been designed "with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning." He went on to emphasize the intent is to build long term relationships, and "not just hookups."

Facebook's annual developer conference started Tuesday.
The company has made a few important revelations on day 1.
Facebook Spaces is a social virtual reality hangout that utilizes VR technology.
The new Facebook Messenger App has a "discover" tab to help users find relevant businesses.
Facebook also has a number of augmented reality tools for phone cameras, including object recognition.

Zune is over! If you want it. Microsoft announced that the music service and butt of jokes since 2006 is quietly being put out to digital pasture. Microsoft has announced that on November 15 “Zune services will be retired.” That means that whatever Zune customers remain “will no longer be able to stream or download content to [their] device from the Zune music service.” The service launched in 2006, and was meant to compete with Apple’s iTunes and iPod products. The company will convert Zune Music Passes into Groove Music Passes (Groove is the company’s new music platform).